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Over the last two weeks or so, my daily routine has gotten to the point where I can afford to watch a little television every night, and chip away at the queue of shows and programs that I\u2019ve wanted to watch over the last year.\u00a0 Obviously, this will come back to a screeching halt once #2 comes into the picture, but for the time being, I\u2019m trying to enjoy the feeling of a little bit of expendable downtime again, and soaking in all the stories that I\u2019m hearing good about, and getting to experience them myself.<\/span><\/p>\n Among the things recently watched would be Amazon\u2019s <\/span>Invincible<\/em>; I\u2019m so long out of comics, I had no idea what this property even was, but from what I can tell it\u2019s by Robert Kirkman, the guy who made <\/span>The Walking Dead<\/em>, and it seems to be something of a lampooning of lots of popular superhero comic stories, while having its own cohesive storyline.<\/span><\/p>\n As a whole, I found season 1 to be pretty enjoyable.\u00a0 It\u2019s fairly obvious what properties are being emulated in some characters, and there\u2019s something about the general goriness of the series that kind of takes the veil of the sidelines off of traditional superhero stories, because obviously there is such a thing as collateral damage, and whenever any invasion or attack occurs, there are going to be people negatively affected.<\/span><\/p>\n But a comprehensive review isn\u2019t the point of this whole post; it\u2019s the answer to the question in the headline of this post, because I think it\u2019s pretty obvious where Invincible\u2019s overall superhuman aspects originate from, and it\u2019s most definitely not because he\u2019s a half-Viltrumite.<\/span><\/p>\n Like I said, I went into this as blind as Ray Charles\u2019s long-decomposed remains, so I had no idea that Mark Grayson\u2019s mom was Korean, therefore making Invincible half-Korean in addition to being a Viltrumite.\u00a0 That said, it becomes clearer than crystal to why Invincible is basically invincible, warranting being a mega super hero worthy of his own comic and television series.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Frankly, the only thing that gives it away is this little piece of framed artwork in the background of the Grayson\u2019s household.\u00a0 And then I notice the way Debbie Grayson is drawn, and then the black hair on mother and son makes some sense.\u00a0 Also, the fact that both characters are voiced by Stephen Yeun and Sandra Oh, actual Koreans, and the animation credits are basically a rollcall of a Shinsaegae employee roster, and it all makes perfect sense to just how inherently of a Korean operation this whole thing is.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, Korean or not, I enjoyed Invincible.\u00a0 The fact that it\u2019s so very Korean in the roots only makes it that much more enjoyable for me, and I look forward to seeing how the story unfolds in future seasons.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the last two weeks or so, my daily routine has gotten to the point where I can afford to watch a little television every night, and chip away at the queue of shows and programs that I\u2019ve wanted to watch over the last year.\u00a0 Obviously, this will come back to a screeching halt once … Continue reading Isn\u2019t it obvious what makes Invincible invincible?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[140,103,83,69],"class_list":["post-47941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comics","tag-motherland","tag-observations","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47943,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47941\/revisions\/47943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}